State ex rel. Tewalt v. Pollard
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Pbohibitiost to ¡S. E. Pollard, a justice of the peace. This is an application for a writ of prohibition to be issued out of this court, preventing the respondent, as justice of the peace, from the commission of further acts in a certain prosecution pending before him, on the ground that such acts are in excess of his jurisdiction.
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Pbohibitiost to ¡S. E. Pollard, a justice of the peace. This is an application for a writ of prohibition to be issued out of this court, preventing the respondent, as justice of the peace, from the commission of further acts in a certain prosecution pending before him, on the ground that such acts are in excess of his jurisdiction. The verified relation showed that on October 9,1901, one Banks made complaint in writing to the respondent, who was a justice of the peace of the city of Yiroqua, charging that Grant Pierce and Jack Mills had violated secs. 1565«-1565c of the Eevised Statutes of…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
This is an application for the exercise by this court of the power of superintending control over a justice of the peace. Since the case of State ex rel. Fourth Nat. Bank v. Johnson, 103 Wis. 591, there seems to be little necessity of discussing the nature and extent of the jurisdiction of this court by way of a superintending control over inferior courts. It is a high power, which enables this court, by the use of all necessary and proper writs, including the writ of prohibition, to control the course of litigation in inferior courts when such a court either refuses to act within its…
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